"98 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 
ScUTELLARIA MACRANTHA— LARGE-FLOWERED SKULL-CAP. 
Labiate. Didynamia Gymnospermia. 
Native of Eastern Asia. It is in the Royal Gardens of Kew, and 
is a truly handsome, dwarf, hardy, annual plant. Grown in masses 
it would be highly ornamental. The flowers are borne in profusion in 
erect terminal spikes or racemes, large, of a rich purple. It blooms 
during all summer. It ought to have a place in every flower-garden. 
(Figured in Bot, Mag. 4420.) 
SIPHOCAMPYLUS MANETTIAFLORUS—MANETTIA-LIKE FLOWERED. 
(Synonym S, nitidus.) 
A dwarf, very neat, bushy plant, with pretty deep green foliage. 
It blooms profusely. The tube of a flower is about an inch and a half 
long, of a bright scarlet, with the divided end limb of a rich yellow. 
It is a beautiful plant, and ought to be in every warm greenhouse. 
(Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot.) 
At THE Royau GARDENS OF KEw. 
In the Stove. 
AwnsELIA Arricana.—In our last Number we noticed this very 
handsome plant, then beginning to bloom; now (January 16th) it has 
six hundred expanded flowers, and forms a most lovely object. Its 
pale green flowers, beautified with deep chocolate-maroon bars and 
blotches, render it highly interesting. The species ought to be in 
every collection of Orchidez. 
Cococyrsitum TonTareA.—A trailing plant, placed upon a shelf 
near a doorway, and the shoots hanging a-yard down. It bears nume- 
rous berries, each about the size of a coffee-berry ; they are in clusters 
of three together, and of the most intense violet-blue colour. It is an 
interesting plant, and would be very ornamental for the side of a 
window in a warm dwelling-room. The berries remain perfect for a 
very long period. 
In the Greenhouse. 
MinpiA speciosa,—A very handsome erect shrubby plant, having 
scanty fir-like foliage, and smallish pea-formed flowers, of a beautiful 
rosy-violet colour, which are profusely produced in long spikes. 
Blooming at the winter season renders it a most desirable plant. 
ACACIA SQUAMATA.—The foliage is small, and the branches are 
drooping, bearing a vast profusion of deep golden-coloured flowers. 
It is a very interesting and handsome species. 
Acacia OvATA.—The flowers of a rich yellow, and produced in 
vast profusion. One of the most lovely. 
Acacia RicEANA.—Small pinus-like leaves. The flowers are 
borne in cone-shaped heads, profusely, of a pale yellow colour. A 
very neat species, 
ACACIA UNDUL#FOLIA.—Flowers a rich yellow, with singular 
foliage. <A pretty plant. 
BEAvFoRTIA DECUSSATA.—A fine plant, was in beautiful bloom; 
